Marxist

Example Sentences

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In 1983 the US invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, after a Marxist coup.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

In an article for the Times of India this month, Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of the American socialist magazine Jacobin, called Mr. Mamdani “the real deal—a Marxist by training and conviction.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

I first encountered his name, in fact, in a 1970s biography of the Irish revolutionary Liam Mellows by Marxist historian Desmond Greaves, who mentions Hillquit several times without bothering to explain who he was.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

Paramilitary groups emerged in Colombia in the 1980s to fight Marxist guerrillas that had taken up arms against the state.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

During the years 1919-20 Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, adopted as his own the maxim ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton